Hello everyone,
I am an automotive sales engineer working at a Tier 1 supplier, with a mostly Japanese department where Japanese has become a soft requirement.
I've been trying my best to learn where I can, and I can speak Japanese at a basic level from school as well as almost a year with this company. I have learned a lot, and have had to puzzle my way through countless airport pickups, drives, and factory visits, but I'm honestly really lacking in industry specific vocabulary. This came to a head on a recent project, where I was asked to temporarily step in as a bootleg interpreter.
If I target learning in this specific vocab category, I will be a lot more functional as an employee both in English and Japanese.
I would like to look for vocabulary in the following categories:
1) Construction terms- Basic things like foundation, pillar, platform, etc.
2) Mechanical engineering terms- processes and components like screws, nuts, pipes, joints, etc.
3) Car parts and components? (I know a book exists called Ohsuka's Automotive Terminology or something, but unfortunately it's really hard to get and I can't really read it yet…)
4) Mechanical verbs (to fasten, to loosen, to weld, to relocate, etc)
To make matters worse, many of my coworkers do not speak English very well and do not have much help of their own with this topic ,beyond me going "What do you call this in Japanese?" every time.
by itak365